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Peter Bogdanovich

CREATORS Directors Remembrance

The Last Picture Showman

January 7, 2022January 8, 2022 Michael Giltz 0 Comments

Peter Bogdanovich was old-school even when he was new

Summer of 85

Call Us By Our Names

June 28, 2021July 1, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Barbara Sukowa, Filippo Meneghetti, François Ozon, Martine Chevallier, Summer of 85, Two of Us

In these French gay love stories, love and death are basically the same thing

DOCUMENTARY FILM

War Games Without Frontiers

June 7, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Dror Moreh, Israel, Palestine, The Gatekeepers, The Human Factor

A new, sometimes heartbreaking documentary about the cyclical struggle for peace in the Middle East

J Balvin

DOCUMENTARY FILM

J Balvin Tries to Become a Man in ‘The Boy From Medellin’

May 20, 2021May 24, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Reggaeton, The Boy From Medellin

In an uninspiring doc, Reggaeton’s most apolitical star prepares for the biggest concert of his life

Kajillionaire

Goodbye Oscar, Hello IRA

April 22, 2021April 26, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Ammonite, IRA, Kajillionaire, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Miranda July, Moonlight, My Octopus Teacher, New York Independent Film Critics, Oscar, Relic, Vast of Night

If the New York Independent Film Critics ran the show, Miranda July would be Hollywood’s most celebrated director this year

Lonesome Dove

CREATORS FICTION FILM Remembrance Writers

Larry McMurtry Was One Lucky Bastard

March 29, 2021March 31, 2021 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Brokeback Mountain, Cybill Shepherd, Diana Ossana, Doc?, E. Annie Proulx, Hud, James L. Brooks, Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, Martin Ritt, Paper Moon, Paul Newman, Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, The Murder of Mary Phagan, What's Up

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist has Hollywood to thank for his biggest successes

‘Ridgerunner’ Takes a Wrong Turn at the Pass

March 25, 2021 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner, The Outlander

A Sophomore Slump Western from a talented Canadian author

Nationtime

DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘Nationtime’ and ‘Jazz On A Summer’s Day’

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Amiri Baraka, Anita O'Day, Bert Parks, Betty Shabazz, Chuck Berry, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Jesse Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Nationtime, Newport Jazz Festival, Sidney Poitier, William Greaves

Time for two great reissued documentaries

Freaks and Geeks

‘Freaks and Geeks’: Lost and Found

February 18, 2021February 23, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments American Dreams, An American Family, Blair Brown, Brittany Snow, Busy Phillips, David Straithairn, Ernie Kovacs, Freaks and Geeks, Genndy Tartakovsky, Holocaust, Hornblower, I'll Fly Away, Ioan Gruffud, James Franco, Jason Segal, Jay Tarses, Linda Cardellini, Louise Lasser, Mary Hartman, Meryl Streep, Molly Dodd, Moonlighting, Police Squad!, Regina Taylor, Sam Waterston, Seth Rogen, The Clone Wars, The Monkees, The Zucker Brothers, Timothy Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh

With ‘Freaks’ and ‘The Muppet Show’ finally streaming, here are some other great shows we want to see back in the rotation

Westerns

CLASSICS FICTION FILM

Western Roundup

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Alan Ladd, John Wayne, Shane, The Library of America, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Searchers, Warlock

The Library of America finally acknowledges the Western novel. What took them so long?

Susanna Clarke

Fantasylands

November 2, 2020November 5, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments A Deadly Education, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Kim Stanley Robinson, Moby Dick, Naomi Novik, Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, Temeraire, The Ministry For the Future

New novels from Susanna Clarke, Naomi Novik, and Kim Stanley Robinson

Science

Follow the Science

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Edward D. Melillo, Jo Marchant, Jonathan C. Slaght, Katie Mack, Owls of the Eastern Ice, The Butterfly Effect, The End of Everything, The Human Cosmos

A grab-bag of fascinating books to discuss at your next Zoom cocktail party

Christie

Evil Under the Blu-Ray

September 15, 2020September 20, 2020 Michael Giltz 2 Comments Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, Death on the Nile, Elizabeth Taylor, Evil Under the Sun, Gal Gadot, Hercule Poirot, Kenneth Branagh, Miss Marple, Murder On The Orient Express, Peter Ustinov, The Mirror Crack'd

Why are Agatha Christie movies so bad?

David Copperfield

What the Dickens?

September 11, 2020September 18, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Armando Iannucci, Ben Whishaw, David Copperfield, Dev Patel, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar

Armando Iannucci’s sour, indifferent adaptation of ‘David Copperfield’

Chechnya

DOCUMENTARY FILM

‘Welcome to Chechnya’ and ‘Unsettled’

June 30, 2020July 5, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments David France, Tom Shepard, Unsettled, Welcome to Chechnya

For queers escaping the horrors of Chechnya, Syria and the like, the U.S. is still the Promised Land

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